In the first-millennium BC, the ancient Middle East was dominated by the mighty Assyrian Empire, a militaristic, bureaucratic state that spanned territory from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east. Thousands of clay letters, accounts and other records, detailing the everyday business of ancient Mesopotamia, were buried for centuries under the ruins of the imperial capitals. Excavated in the nineteenth century, published online in the twenty-first, this app offers a fast, offline interface to these documents for historical research.
Features:
- Quickly view and search the letters in the State Archives of Assyria database, even offline
- Tabbed panes for choosing between cuneified, transliterated, synthesized normalisations or translations of texts.
- Integrated glossary with lookup of headwords in context
- Map the locations of places mentioned in a letter
- Basic support for reading RINAP (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period) volumes
- Make notes and annotate texts
- On macOS 10.14 Mojave, switch between dark and light modes